End of Year Memories
May 18th, 2010
With scrapbooking, craft making and memory keeping are all the craze this decade we try to think of unique ways to commemorate and put memories to paper for our kids to one day grow up and see in a book all about them. I have to admit I’ve saved lots of stuff and some is organized, some is not. I’ve started the baby scrapbooks but with moving and having kids it’s hard to keep up. If you’re having a hard time keeping up as well that’s okay just save the stuff you want to scrapbook in folders or envelopes and label them so you know exactly where those things should go. If you have digital pictures that go with a particular event when you upload them to your computer be sure you label that folder as well so when you get to that event for the scrapbook you’ll know exactly where to look. When you upload your pictures always make a backup copy to an external hard drive or to a disc. At the very least upload them to a service like kodakgallery.com that will save them for you!
Now that my oldest is in school I definitely want to keep an on-going memory for him of each school year so this year for kindergarten I have saved his papers he brings home and put them in one of those memory boxes you can buy at the craft store or in the craft section. He’s also gotten some awards and progress reports that I’ve saved with pictures to go with them and I’ll add those to the scrap book. As it gets closer to the end of the school year I will take a scrapbook page to school and get his teachers to write a little note to Zack and ask his class mates to write their names on a blank piece of paper that I can scan, “redesign”, then print and place in the scrapbook as a border around the class picture. (don’t want the 5 and 6 yr olds to actually have the scrapbook page in their hands..LOL)
I’m gonna get Zack to write a little something each year about that grade so he can see how his handwriting changes from year to year. His last day is the end of June so I guess I better get to creating this so I have it ready!
What creative ways have you captured your child’s life?
Kindergarten Memory Box
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